Things Black People Confuse as Racist

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Face paint

The practice of blackface enjoyed a long and popular run in American entertainment and didn’t become taboo until late in the 20th century. Now, those ignorant enough to still don shoe polish are publicly crucified or worse. But while you’ll probably always double-take when you see a white person in dark face paint it’s not necessarily racist or blackface. The last time this came on a national scale was Robert Downey Jr’s satirical role in Tropic Thunder, in which he played an white Australian playing a black American general.

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